Thursday, July 31, 2014

The Russian Interior Ministry substantial offers financial reward, 110 thousand dollars to anyone who could penetrate the network or the program known as the famous Tor to encrypt and hide your identity on the Internet; so as to eliminate the identities of network users of Tor.

Saying that the goal of this command is : "to ensure the country's security and defense."

The contest is open only to the Russians, and applicants need to pay about 5480 dollars to provide for the contest, which is open until 20 August

Earlier this month, the Council of the Russian parliament, the law firms are obliged to contact store personal data of users Russians in the country.

According to the Guardian, the more Russia is the fifth country in terms of the use of the Tor, with the presence of more than 210 thousand people actually benefit from the service, they are anyway growing steadily.

Tor is developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Navy, then became widespread globally purpose of concealing identity, and relies on a network of thousands of volunteers around the world who are turning to their computers relays to pass confidential data encrypted through.

And is being used by journalists and the enforcement officers is legal or positive things, but it can also be used for the purposes of illegal and unethical and negative exist in the "deep web \ dark network", and that there is no room for expansion where in this article, but you can read about here.

To follow up, the Ministry of Defence in 2013 and it is still one of the biggest supporters of the development kit Tor, those developers who are considered independent research center is a nonprofit, and who keep the tools used to allow all access to the Tor.

In addition, it is mentioned that the leaked documents by the "Edward Snowden" published, explained that the NSA "National Security Agency" unable to break through the Tor network or spy on the users of the network.

MiniTube launches its update - an application to watch Youtube clips without the need for a web browser or Flash Player - version number 2.2, brings some set of fixes to the problems operating in some videos, and minor improvements.

In this version it is possible to opt out of a particular channel "unsubscribe" by the right mouse button in the subscription and then set the desired choice; and the possibility of the appointment of videos that he has seen 'as watched'.

The other thing is the terminal command to end the operation, with procedures identical code for Unity and GNOME 3 lists each application.

The developer of the application "Flavio Tordini" says that MiniTube will soon be upgraded to QT5.

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

AppGrid software center is light and quick, a good alternative for Ubuntu Software Center, it has received a new look after it has been updated this week.

After that AppGrid faced many criticisms - though its speed and simplicity - but it faced criticism in terms of ill-structured design as it is consistent and compatible enough, that is fragmented and contaminated visually.

But the new version 1.5.0 for AppGrid will address each of these criticisms.

Where it has been updated the appearance and layout program so well, it was replaced by a white background, divided into squares in the program, which was offensive to some, it has been changed to a simple gray background.

It also added orange color to the top bar and it contains a toolbar options, in addition to the images footage applications become better exposure, and the presentation of the application and comments, description and other.

Canonical released the first update package "1" to a Ubuntu 14.04 available for download, and if you are using Ubuntu 14.04 you can update your system as soon as access to the new version 14.04.1.

Ubuntu 14.04.1 comes up with fixes for problems, packages, and security updates to the system since its launch in April, and moreover, support has been improved hardware support, and increase stability,.

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Munich, has provided more than 10 million euros of the money, after the transition to Linux and open source software.

The first phase Munich Began the migration for Open Source in 2006 as some workstations and a small percentage of computers that uses Debian distribution with OpenOffice and Firefox and Thunderbird.

And then in 2008 it has switched from Debian distribution to Debian based on the Ubuntu called "LiMux", having been the realization that Ubuntu and its derivatives are the best platform to achieve the desired requirements.

LiMux 4 is the current version of the German distribution based on Kubuntu 10.04, and the next version LiMux 5, it will be based on Kubuntu 12.04, which will be adopted soon.

In 2013, it was announced the final stage of migration as a whole, a shift to fully open source, resulting in a saving of more than 10 million euros.

This figure includes both the cost of renting a staff of foreign companies to help manage and implement solutions, in addition to the internal costs of investment in training, management and support.

- The amount of money required for the transition to open source = 23 million euros.
- The amount of money required to upgrade \ buy licenses for Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office = 34 million euros.

As you can see, the amount of expenditure is still present in both, but remains less in open source, and gives the save and clear, and in the future will increase the amount of savings.

These figures also do not take into account the long-term savings, which ensures further savings soon.

The Munich city of at the top of the cities that pushed to use the open source, as the last year distributing CDS of Ubuntu 12.04 for free to Windows XP users.

After months of tests, a version of the of Chinese Deepin distribution 2014 is released the stable and is available for download now.

Deepin 2014 is based on Ubuntu 14.04, it does not use GNOME Shell nor Unity not even Cinnamon, but uses a custom shell written in HTML5, which means desktop high and they respond very distinctive.

Deepin uses its own desktop environment, which is called The Deepin Desktop Environment, which adds some new features and highlights, including: the ability to remove applications directly from the bar to start applications, settings and Hot Corners.

The other thing which is a prominent is called Deepin Control Centre, as it is becoming displays system settings in the desktop on both sides of the bar, which allows easy access to the settings, a beautiful visual appearance.

Instead the applications has been improved and developed, by the team contains more than 30 people from the developers.

It is worth mentioning that DeepinSoftware center is wonderful, which puts the Canonical company in an awkward position and shameful in front of the power and beauty of Deepin Software center.

In addition to applications of multimedia player, which are easy to use, instead of the beautiful Games Centre.

Do you want to try it ?! Deepin 2014 able to be downloadable free of charge, but requires a relatively high hardware requirement, it also supports installation on computers safe boot UEFI / Secure Boot.

* Note : We recommend not to use the distro in VirtualBox because of Compiz (visual effects), which will consume much resources and may lead to freeze the computer, we recommend fully install.

Linux system contains a number of interfaces that have plenty of diverse and different in their characteristics and forms, and perhaps one of the best of these interfaces, namely, Xfce, and in this article we review the a number of advantages and other characteristics which this interface has.
XFCE one of interfaces for Linux, a free, open source, characterized as being very light, making it suitable for older computers, designed to economize on the use of hardware system and be highly productive.

Although Xfce is classified as one of the best interfaces for devices old and low requirements, but it is still visually appealing and aesthetically pleasing, easy to use, and consists of a number of packages and software that make it integrate with the desktop environment, and you can customize and adjust however you like.

Xfce is based on GTK + 2 and use the window manager Xfwm, it is strong and sturdy.

XFCE environment is very fast and stable, a customizable broadly, and make maintaining the system resources a top priority, and provide visual improvements such as shadow and transparency and can reach workspaces to eight, it looks like a unique combination of dual GnomeClassic + KDE, so you'll notice immediately it is pure and free of distraction and visual distraction factors and comfortable for the eyes, it's a classic and simple and allows easy access to applications through the process list is far from complicated.

Rather than previously, contain Xfce center integrated settings, and is confusing for novice users, and contains most if not all of the widgets that a user needs of adjustments.

In addition, there are a number of prominent Xfce applications core, which has either been derived from GNOME applications and development, and has either been written from scratch, including: Thunar, a file browser the default Xfce, is designed to be fast and consumes as little as possible memory, as well as being a high customization through plugins, and Leafpad a text editor by default in Xfce, which is also used in Xubuntu but with the derivation and change its name to Mousepad, and the program of Parole is a media player that is strong and fast is based on the framework of GStreamer, and program Xfburn a tool for burning DVDs of the CD / DVD, and finally, Orage for calendar and timelines.

- And comes with the best and the most prominent 5 distributions that use Xfce environment and are advised to use:

Monday, July 28, 2014

In a new report revealed by "XKeyscore snooping program" on leaked confidential documents concerning the activities of the National Security Agency, the U.S. NSA, says that the agency was using a secret program to classify all of the cares matters such as project Tor or Tails distribution and all who read the magazine Linux Journal is placed under a certain type of observation, but even that the agency was interested in pursuing both protection and privacy matters in general and especially those who cares about Linux and open source.

XKeyscore is a collection of software to collect and analyze the data used by the NSA has been detected for some of them by Edward Snowden, what has happened recently is that it has been detected on the source code for one of these programs (in fact is the rule file) used by the NSA in tracking operations , and discovered the above information according to which track all of the cares of security and privacy on the Web in general and some Ips specific pertaining to network Tor, according to a report carried out by the security experts Germans about the file leaked the tracking process does not belong to people reel off or goals for NSA, but anyone looking for a issues related to these areas.

Some searches that are tracked are any searches containing words such as 'linux', 'USB', 'CD', 'secure desktop', 'IRC', 'truecrypt' or 'tor', there are also websites are tracked all visitors such as Linux Journal, or those who are looking for services such as stealth and HotSpotShiledMegaProxy and FreeNet and many other websites, so that in fact are classified distribution Tails specializes in protection as "software developed by radical extremists across the Community."

Some countries, such as Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are beyond the scope of tracing operations carried out by the NSA, the other countries around the world appears to be "despised by" seeking NSA hard to keep track of looking for such a things outside of these five countries known as the "Five Eyes".

Matters raised about tracking NSA is not new, but is the new track them down for this particular group of users and track them to the readers of Linux Journal and other websites .. Maybe they finally understood that open source has reached a stage make users security really is not able to track them through and this perhaps trying to track them down when they try to download these software from the beginning by the search and other websites .. can you reply on this news ?

Recently, YouTube users has increased more than ever, the network containing the largest knowledge base of different media, and thus the large number of channels and passages, making it difficult for you to determine the appropriate channel that you want to participate from among the millions, this is also the case If you're a fan of Linux who want to subscribe to Linux channels to follow the news, discussions and information about Linux and open source.

FocusWriter is a lightweight application and a good text editor and free from distraction or exciting distraction, and can operate in full-screen mode, which is very comfortable in writing because it is simple and far from complex.

Friday, July 25, 2014

Robolinux Linux distribution is quick and easy to use, which is based on the ancient Debian distribution (very stable), which is designed to be suitable for end-users, and has recently added a lot of developments and changes.

Robolinux uses software technique called Stealth VM Software that allows users to create a copy of Windows operating system with all the software installed inside as well as updates (which is the most important feature of the distribution).

In addition to these important feature, which is one of the most important features of the distribution, the developer also added a number of new packages.

Now it is possible to run Netflix on Firefox and Chrome (because it has been added component of Silverlight), some software such as Skype and kdenlive and unetbootin and Plex Media and others were updated; in addition, it has added all the security updates and systemic (upstream) of stable Debian.

Popcorn Time is a wonderful open source aims to broadcast movies for free and without the need to waste time downloading the whole movie, as you can watch the videos as we do in Youtube without download, The Popcorn is an application just like Netflix, it has attracted all the media in recent days, describing it as a "disaster in the world of the film industry."

In addition to the above, Popcorn Time allows users to watch movies with the translation that fit their own language (if available), without cost, which makes it illegal in some countries, and is based on the principle of peer-to-peer (torrent).

# install PopcornTime on Ubuntu :

- Open a terminal Ctrl + Alt + T and paste the following three commands :

As you know, the repository which enables users to install interface Cinnamon on Ubuntu have been stopped long time ago, and users became unable to install this interface on Ubuntu only through the construction of the source, which it is very difficult for users to non-advanced in Ubuntu distribution.

Fortunately, now, finally a new repository is provided to solves this problem, providing the Cinnamon interface (last version) for Ubuntu 14.04, and for Ubuntu 12.04, to add the repository in order to install Cinnamon on your system run these commands :

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Tor is an open-source software to hide you on the Web, people use it all over the world. When you connect using Tor, you simply connect to the Tor network where thousands of people are in it from all over the world.

The best way to understand how Tor works :

The easiest way is to try Tor with Firefox which comes with Tor and many extras protection and stealthy, you can download the Tor Browser mobile from this link.

Tor is a great project for hiding and protection from tracking on the Web, there are several other projects within the project Tor to hide on the Web, such as the draft Orbot, which provides access to the Tor network from Android phones, Tails, which is a Linux distribution based on Debian ready to be used with Tor in all contacts and programs so that Edward Snowden who brook away from NSA uses it, you can find more about these projects from this link.

The Tor is a secure network, and it can also be used to browse the deep web.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Apt-get package manager is the default in Ubuntu distro and other distos which are based on it like Linux Mint and others, apt-get is known by its ability to manage packages and repositories system quickly and easily, we will explain in this post simple basics of package management system via apt-get.

In Linux, specifically Ubuntu, there are so-called repositories, which are a place where you can find all versions of packages and applications so that the users can later install easily by adding a link of a repository to their system and use apt-get to install software they want, creating a repository is not for new users it is an advanced stage, now you will learn a few basic commands for apt-get.

To install the package :

sudo apt-get install package
Do not forget to replace package to the name of package you want to install.

To remove a package :

sudo apt-get remove package

To remove the pack and all the settings :

sudo apt-get purge package
To check for updates :

sudo apt-get update

To upgrade a specific package :

sudo apt-get upgrade pacakge
To upgrade all packages :

sudo apt-get upgrade
To search for the package :

sudo apt-cache search package

To add a repository from Launchpad :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa: something/someone

Do not forget to replace the text in red colour to the repository, which you find in Launchpad.

To remove the repository from Launchpad :

sudo add-apt-repository - remove ppa: something / someone

To clean up the packages from /var/cache/apt/archives/ :

sudo apt-get clean
To remove the non-required packages :

sudo apt-get autoremove
You can explore more options for apt-get commands in some online guides.

Linux system consists of several components, the most important of these components is the Linuxkernel which is the heart of the system, the so-called Shell that takes Linux kernel as casing.

Bash is in all Linux distributions almost, it is responsible for the implementation of the terminals commands as an example, and it is responsible for taking commands and passed them to the kernel and deal with them, which is very useful and depend on them most of the Linux applications.

When you execute ls command, for example, which lists all the files and folders in the current path in the terminal, the Bash automatically execute the program in /bin/ls, then the program is executed and the components are listed the current path.

Shell script is a set of serial commands that are written for a particular job, you can perform anything and modify anything you want the system via the shell script, the Bash reads the commands and instructions from a shell script and it is implemented to perform the task that it was designed for.

Shell script does not require simple commands such as ls and pwd, it can contain conditional sentences like if and functions and variables and things very complicated, it differs from the use of these things, each according to the goal of shell scripts.

This is an example of a very simple shell script file which will ask for your name and your age, then print them in the screen, take these commands and save them in a file in a folder, for example test.sh in the home directory :

Then run the following command to make it executable :chmod +x test.sh

Now to execute shell scripts, do as this :

. / test.sh

Enter your name, and enter your age, and will print the sentence .. Of course this is a very simple example to give you an idea about it, writing useful shell scripts needs a higher level than that, you can learn shell scripts from some online Guides.

Monday, July 21, 2014

You all know that the problem of intermittent letters on Flash player under Linux is one of the most troubling problems for users, especially for those who deal frequently with the websites where the flash is used, today we will explain to you how to solve this problem on the Linux environment and the Firefox browser.

What do now is to install a special version of Flash of Windows on Ubuntu and the latest version via the package provided by the site Webupd8 to this matter, on Ubuntu and derivatives of Ubuntu by these commands :

For other distributions, download this file libfreshwrapper.so from this link for 32-bit distributions, and here's for 64-bit, and put it in the folder /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ .

Now if we opened Firefox and went to any website that uses flash, the following problem will appear to us :

We need to an extension named Pepper Flash to complete the solution, we can get it by simply downloading the Google Chrome browser from this linkand installing it, then re-open any website that has Flash from Firefox browser, and Enjoy :)

Developers of elementary OS distro Announced changing the name of the next version from Isis to Freya, the reason why the developers did this change is to not be similar to the name of the "Islamic state in Syria and Iraq" (Daash), which is summed up in English as well as Isis into thinking people that there is a relationship between the two.

Elementary clearly unrelated to the group of armed known as Isis, we do not believe that people are confused because of similarity of names, but we wanted to clarify this ambiguity occurring for not getting confusion to people in the coming days, Freya beautiful name expresses the love, therefore we have chosen .. says Developers on Google Plus.

This precedent of its kind in the fact that the Linux distribution changed its name to not only similar to the armed organization in the Middle East, politics has became perhaps the intervention in every area, even in the field of free software.

Sunday, July 20, 2014

Developers announced Linux Mint distro announced the launch of version 17 named Qiana with KDE interface, the new version comes with KDE 4.13 In addition to the improvements in the application of the Director of updates and software sources and the welcome screen, director of access MDM also got some updates, to see all the new features, click here.

To download the Linux Mint 17 KDE 32-bit version Click here, and Click here for 64-bit.

Redhat Announced - the largest company in the world of Linuxservers and free software in general - the launch of the final version of Redhat Linux 7, the new version of Red Hat is based on Fedora 19, and it comes by default with file system XFS, which allows the establishment of hard drives up to 500 terabytes up maximum.

RedHat distribution is considered very suitable for servers, which are used frequently in large data centers (Data Centers), as they occupy more than 90% of the 500 most powerful computer in 2013, and occupies a sizeable share in the server market.

To download the demo version of RedHat 7, or buy a version officially, click here.

Mozilla has announced the launch of the famous version 30 of the browser MozillaFirefox World Wide Web, the new version comes with several improvements such as sidebars button for quick access to the history and tags, support for GStreamer 1.0, in addition to the repair of several ailments here and there.

To download Firefox 30 for Windows , click here, for Linux click here, and for Mac click here, or search for it in repositories of your distribution, you might find the latest release of it.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Earlier this year and in the exhibition "Mobile World Congress" in Barcelona, Canonical announced the first two companies for mobile phones will make smart phones that works under Ubuntu Touch system which are Meizu and Bq
As you know from the title, Meizu is the first company that produced and introduced smart phones with Ubuntu Touch system.

Meizu & Canonical

Meizu is a manufacturer of electronics located in the city Tsohaa and considered to be among the top ten companies in the smart phone market in the whole China. What concerns us is that it is the first partner for Canonical in China after the announcement of their partnership last February the two companies worked on the feet and leg to take out the first fruits of the partnership, which is Meizu MX3. This will display the phone for the first time in the exhibition Mobile Asia Expo 2014 place on June 11 in the city of Shanghai (the show is a gathering of developers and innovators from all over the world).